The RiskOn brings together talents from Switzerland’s top universities and experienced risk professionals from Switzerland leading financial institutions to co-create innovative solutions in the realm of risk management.
DAOs are a rapidly growing phenomena, and the importance of these new organizational structures is only going to increase over the next years with the further adoption of blockchain technology. Research on how to build more inclusive and democratic systems representing cooperative values needs more consideration and DAWO is a testbed for continues conversation.
The 2-day workshop brings together researchers examining the potential of DAOs, leveraging a culture of participation to fosters innovation and knowledge transfer between academics to advance DAO as a new organizational structure. We expect that the workshop yields a variety of novel research opportunities, which will set a basis for continuous collaboration among participants of the workshop.
Start: Q3/4 2026
Public institutions and private organisations alike process thousands of sensitive documents every year — asylum applications, medical records, legal contracts, internal communications, customer data. Most rely on cloud-based AI tools that route this data through external infrastructure, creating compliance exposure under Switzerland’s FADP and the EU AI Act.
Hack Apertus creates replicable blueprints for AI adoption across industries and public administrations. Interdisciplinary academic and professional teams worldwide source and curate datasets across text, image, and voice, fine-tune Apertus 8B v1.5, and build open, on-premise use case solutions with public and private sector partners.
All outputs, including datasets, fine-tuned models, and Docker images, are published as open commons and feed back to the Swiss AI Initiative as training data for next Apertus iterations.
Wie können wir Raum und Zeit neu denken, um die Zukunft verantwortungsvoll und wirkungsvoll zu gestalten? Welche Rolle spielen Geoinformationen dabei – als Grundlage für nachhaltige Entscheidungen, innovative Entwicklungen und resiliente Gesellschaften?
In einer Welt, die sich stetig wandelt, gewinnen Fragen nach der nachhaltigen Gestaltung unserer Lebensräume zunehmend an Bedeutung. Unter dem Leitgedanken „Raum und Zeit neu denken – Geoinformationen für heute und morgen» laden wir Sie ein, neue Perspektiven zu entdecken, bewährtes Wissen weiterzudenken und gemeinsam Lösungen für die Herausforderungen von morgen zu entwickeln.
Geoinformationen sind hierbei mehr als nur Daten über unsere Umwelt – sie sind zentrale Werkzeuge für eine vorausschauende Planung, resiliente Infrastrukturen und ein tieferes Verständnis der komplexen Beziehungen zwischen Mensch, Raum und Zeit. Dabei geht es nicht nur um technische Innovationen und wie geobasierte Informationen genutzt, weiterentwickelt und interdisziplinär vernetzt werden können, sondern auch um die sinnstiftenden Anwendungen von Wissen im Dienst und zum Wohl kommender Generationen.
Gerade in Zeiten globaler Umbrüche sind mutige Impulse und kreative Ansätze gefragt, um Zukunft aktiv zu gestalten. Der Schlüssel dazu liegt in der interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit: Wenn Expertinnen und Experten aus Geowissenschaften, Planung, Umweltforschung, Digitalisierung, Bildung und Gesellschaft ihr Know-how bündeln, entsteht Raum für wirklich transformative Ideen.
Lassen Sie uns gemeinsam daran arbeiten, die Potenziale von Geoinformation im Spannungsfeld von Raum und Zeit verantwortungsvoll und zukunftsorientiert zu nutzen.
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Our mission for the HackAIthon is to ignite innovation, collaboration, and problem-solving through the power of AI in Central Switzerland. By bringing together talented developers, creative minds, and local organizations, we aim to tackle real-world challenges and foster cutting-edge solutions that address the needs of our community.
Call for Challenge Owners:
Do you want to apply artificial intelligence in your company but are unsure how to go about it? Do you want to increase the efficiency of your employees and automate processes, but haven’t had the time, resources or the right team to implement it yet? This is exactly where we can help! At this HackAIthon, talented developers from the region will work during a 36-hour event to develop creative and innovative AI solutions to solve your real-world problems. For you as a challenge owner, the event offers the perfect opportunity to present a specific challenge and start your AI journey. Take the chance to work with creative talent and design future-oriented solutions together! If you are interested to become a challenge owner, get in contact!
Three renowned experts share their experiences, use cases and best practices in their respective areas of work, i.e.:
Speakers:
Moderator:
Dr. Elisabeth Maier, Member of the Board and Co-Founder @ Karakun AG
Participate online via Zoom.
The Swiss NLP Days 2025 are a series of activities in 2025 about Natural Language Processing (NLP), which will take place May 13-15, 2025 in Winterthur, Switzerland. They provide a unique opportunity for everyone interested in NLP applications to connect with experts and gain insights into the current state of NLP, and they serve as a platform for NLP professionals to present their work and exchange with potential clients and other NLP experts.
The Swiss NLP Days consist of two main events:
These two events are accompanied by an NLP Crash Course – Insightful sessions on practical applications and fundamental technologies of Natural Language Processing – throughout the year with workshops and tutorials.
The Swiss NLP Days 2025 mark the 10th anniversary of the SwissText conference, which was initiated in 2016 by NLP researchers at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW).
Find more information on the official website!
Led by industry and academic experts, the NLP Crash Course explores a wide range of NLP topics and aims to help participants understand how NLP can be applied in various business and organizational contexts.
Perfect preparation for the NLP Expo 2025. Biweekly. Free of charge.
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Mascha Kurpicz-Briki (Bern University of Applied Sciences)
Participate online via Zoom.
Led by industry and academic experts, the NLP Crash Course explores a wide range of NLP topics and aims to help participants understand how NLP can be applied in various business and organizational contexts.
Perfect preparation for the NLP Expo 2025. Biweekly. Free of charge.
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Rico Sennrich (University of Zurich)
Participate online via Zoom.
The 2025 edition of AI-Days will take place from January 27 to 29, 2025, in Geneva (January 27 and 28) and Lausanne (January 29). The AI-Days of the HES-SO Engineering and Architecture Department are organized by the Swiss AI Center for SMEs. The aim of the event is to provide a forum for discussing the practical use of new artificial intelligence technologies in the economic fabric.
Find more information and the registration on the official website:
